On its 80th birthday in 2025, the United Nations can mark this occasion by securing a lasting solution to the conflict in the Middle East, by welcoming the State of Palestine as the 194th member state of the United Nations. The next UN conference on Palestine, scheduled for June 2025, could mark a turning point – a decisive and irreversible path towards peace in the Middle East. A Trump administration would greatly serve the interests of America and the world by championing a two-state solution and a comprehensive peace agreement in the Middle East at the meeting to be held in New York in June.

Amid Israel’s shocking brutality in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, there has nonetheless emerged a small window of hope. Almost the entire world has rallied around the two-state solution as the key to regional peace. As a result, a comprehensive agreement is now within reach.

The United Nations General Assembly recently adopted a potentially transformative resolution (PDF) by a large margin. The General Assembly demands an end to the illegal Israeli occupation of 1967, and reaffirms its firm support for the two-state solution. Most importantly, the resolution established a road map for the establishment of a Palestinian state at the high-level international conference (PDF) scheduled to be held in June 2025 at the United Nations.

Let us consider here how long the Palestinians, and the world, have waited for this moment. In 1947, the United Nations first assumed responsibility for addressing the Palestinian issue. By Resolution 181 (PDF), the United Nations General Assembly proposed the partition of Mandatory Palestine into two independent states – one Jewish and one Arab. Unfortunately, the proposed division was not fair and was not agreed upon by both parties. 44% of the lands were allocated to the Palestinians, even though they constitute 67% of the population. But before the plan could be reviewed and settled peacefully, Zionist terrorist groups began ethnically cleansing more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, which was called the Nakba, or catastrophe, of the Palestinian people.

After Israel unilaterally declared its independence and defeated its Arab neighbors in the war, a senior UN mediator, Count Falke Bernadotte, tried to revive the two-state solution. However, Bernadotte was assassinated by Lehi, a Zionist paramilitary organization. Israel signed the Lausanne Protocol in 1949, which revived the two-state solution under the auspices of the United Nations, but then blatantly ignored it. What followed was Israel’s 75-year-long quest to deprive Palestinians of their rights to their homeland.

For decades, the US government, under the guidance of the Israel lobby, has presided over a sham negotiation process. These efforts ostensibly involved direct bilateral talks between an occupying power and an occupied people, two parties that are inherently unequal, and Israel’s goal in these talks has always been to reject the establishment of a truly sovereign Palestinian state. At best, Israel offered “Bantustans,” small, helpless enclaves of Palestinians living under Israeli control. The US-dominated process has continued since the mid-1970s, including the peace process Camp David Accords 1978, Madrid Conference 1991, Oslo Accords 1993-1995, Camp David summit 2000, Quartet road map for peace 2003and Annapolis Conference 2007. In this process taking place in the hall of mirrors, the Israelis continued to obstruct the establishment of a Palestinian state, while the American “mediators” constantly blamed the Palestinians for their intransigence.

It is possible that the Trump administration will choose to change the rules of the game at the next United Nations conference – in the interest of America, in the interest of Israel and its long-term security, and in the interest of the Middle East and the world in achieving peace. In fact, the United States is the only remaining veto holder against a Palestinian state. Israel does not have the right to veto a Palestinian state or peace for that matter. Only the United States has veto power.

Yes, Prime Minister Netanyahu has ideas other than peace. He and his coalition continue to achieve one goal: to deny the state of Palestine through expanding Israeli territorial conquests, which now include not only occupied Palestine, but also parts of Lebanon and a growing portion of Syria.

It requires a new American foreign policy in the Middle East – one capable of bringing peace instead of endless war. According to what he was assigned International Court of JusticeAnd, as shown through General AssemblyG20 (PDF), BRICS (PDF), League of Arab States (PDF), the overwhelming majority of the world supports the two-state solution.

Therefore, the United Nations Conference on Palestine represents a key and vital opportunity, one that could open the way to a comprehensive peace in the Middle East, including seven interconnected actions:

1. An immediate UN-mandated ceasefire on all fronts of the conflict, including Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Iran, and the immediate release of hostages and prisoners of war in all entities.
2. Acceptance of the sovereign State of Palestine as the 194th Member State of the United Nations on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital; Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from the territories occupied in 1967, with the simultaneous deployment of international forces with a UN mandate and security guarantees to protect the entire population.
3. Protecting the territorial integrity and stability of Lebanon and Syria, the complete disarmament of all non-governmental forces, and the withdrawal of all foreign armies from the two countries concerned.
4. Adopting the updated Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, and ending all economic and other sanctions imposed on Iran.
5. Termination, including cessation of funding and disarmament of belligerent non-State entities, of all claims or situations of war, respect for and recognition of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of each State in the region, (without excluding the possibility of subsequent operations) territorial adjustments, security arrangements, and cooperative forms of governance agreed upon by sovereign parties).
6. Establishing regional peace and normalizing diplomatic relations between all Arab and Islamic countries with Israel.
7. Establishment of the Sustainable Development Fund for the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East to support reconstruction, economic recovery and sustainable development in the region.

After many decades of violence and wars, the opportunity for peace is available here and now. The United Nations’ quest for comprehensive peace is our best hope and opportunity in decades.

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